Touch in the town of Goga: Touch and repetition in Slavko Grum’s An Event in the Town of Goga

The article discusses An Event in the Town of Goga (1927), an expressionistic grotesque by Slavko Grum, through the optics of touch understood in three ways. A fetishistic touch changes an object into a being and a being into an object, with a traumatic experience of the touch possibly developing on the side of the touched. In addition to fetishistic touch and traumatic touch, the author also points out metaphorical touch, also expressly present in the play, in the character of the flautist Klikot: metaphorical touch is actually a non-touch, a touch that does not take place but nevertheless touches us in a way unimaginable through mere bodily touch.